Edition of 3000, of which 25 copies are signed.
All copies printed on tan paper.

1968
18" x 24" One color on tan
paper

Influence: Early printed Herbals

Client: Gene Opton,
The Kitchen,
2213 Shattuck Avenue,
Berkeley CA 94704.
All
signed copies to The Poster, San Francisco CA

There's not really a beginning
to things anymore than there's an ending. We
are in the middle of a continuum. Time is an
illusion. But, we humans create patterns. We
impose order on chaos so we can get our work
done. I did posters in high school for musical
performances, but had no notion of becoming a
graphic artist or any other kind of artist for
that matter, and I stopped doing art and went
off to Cal Berkeley to study Classics, but got
thrown out and became a printer instead. After
a while-with the means of production in my hands
as Karl Marx suggested-I started doing again
what I'd all along really liked doing though
it had never crossed my mind that you could make
a living doing what you liked. So for me it's
Crafts Period all day long every day. "The Kitchen" isn't
really the first poster, but it's the first poster
that started out as a poster, and got printed
for a client, and I was paid for. Someday there
will indeed be a last poster, and somebody somewhere
will do what they've been waiting to do all along
with those little signs on the museum wall that
say:

David Lance Goines (1945 - )

and they'll start filling in the space at the
end. And it will make them very happy but I won't
care.